“Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?” AgePastSawsPeriodsPrejudiceOld AgePeculiarPresent Time Author:Michel de Montaigne
“I'm sure if you see things you wrote when you were 19, you cringe. I saw stuff like angry poetry that I wrote when I was mad at my father, or photos I took where I smeared period blood on myself. It's embarrassing.” IfsFatherStuffSawsBloodPeriodsAngryMadEmbarrassingCringe Author:Kathleen Hanna
“High school was the first time I ever saw spoken word poetry. The first place I ever performed a poem was at my school, so in some ways it was the nucleus of how it all started. For me I think high school was a period of trying to figure myself out, and poetry was one of the ways I did that, and was a very helpful avenue to try to do that.” ThinkingWayTryingFirstsSchoolSawsFiguresPeriodsHigh SchoolFirst TimeHelpfulAvenuesSpoken WordNucleus Author:Phil Kay
“I think my weight-training proved to me more than anything that I can do anything in life if I really put my mind to it. I saw me bring myself from 137 pounds to 175 pounds over a seven-year period. That alone said to me that all you have to do is really stick with something, and you can accomplish anything you want. It's brought me great self-esteem because I know I did it. I changed me.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantYearsMindSaidI CanSelfCan DoSawsSelf EsteemChangedPeriodsTrainingWeightSticksSevenAccomplishEsteemPoundsSeven YearsAnything In LifeWeight TrainingGreat Self Esteem Author:Aaron Tippin
“In my view, there is no justice when the 15 wealthiest people in this country in the last two years, saw their wealth increase by $170 billion. That is more wealth acquired in a two year period than is owned by the bottom 130 million Americans.” PeopleYearsTwoCountryLastsWealthJusticeViewsMillionsSawsPeriodsIncreaseBottomBillionsTwo Years Author:Bernie Sanders
“The early Triassic was a period when the planet was recovering from the worst mass extinction it had ever known - that was the end Permian extinction, where climate change caused in part by mega-volcanic eruptions wiped out ninety-five percent of life on Earth. It took about ten or twenty million years for the planet's ecosystems to stabilize. During that time you saw a lot of weird, out-of-balance ecosystems where, for example, crocodile-like predators ripped the crap out of each other along the coasts.” YearsEndsEarthKnownMillionsFiveSawsWorstExamplePlanetsBalancePeriodsTenMassPercentTwentiesClimateClimate ChangeCrapCoastNinetyExtinctionEcosystemsPredatorRippedRecoveringCrocodilesEruptionMegaMass ExtinctionVolcanic Eruptions Author:Annalee Newitz
“I was in the New Zealand army for like four years, the exact period of when it was on the air, so I never saw it.” YearsSawsFourAirPeriodsArmyFour YearsNew Zealand Author:Rhys Darby
“It is my hope that people today will see that, in another time, in another period, when we saw the need for people to speak up, to organize, to mobilize, and to do something about injustice, we came together.” PeopleNeedsTodayTogetherSpeakSawsPeriodsInjusticeOrganizeAnother Time Author:John Lewis
“I see in the FBI 302, which was put out on Memorial Day weekend in print about this big where you needed to use a magnifying glass to read it, but I read it twice, I saw something that really concerned me.It said Hillary Clinton can't remember her exit interview from the CIA because she had no memory for a period of time after she had a concussion. She was secretary of state when she had no memory. Now there's something really seriously wrong with it.” SaidStatesUseBigsRememberMemoriesSawsNeededPeriodsConcernedClintonGlassesInterviewsPrintWeekendSecretaryMemorialCiaFbiExitMemorial DayMagnifyingNo MemoryConcussionsMagnifying GlassMemorial Day Weekend Author:Rudy Giuliani
“I think that they hoped the private sector would come in. And the private sector tried to come in until they saw the size of the problem. I mean, from were people on that weekend that thought they'd had a solution. And then the hole kept getting bigger and bigger. And all of a sudden became apparent that 20 billion wouldn't do it and 30 billion wouldn't do it and 40 billion wouldn't do it. So it got beyond anybody's ability to certainly to do it in a short period of time.” PeopleThinkingMeanProblemAbilitySawsPeriodsSolutionsBiggerSizeBillionsHolesWeekendPrivate Sector Author:Warren Buffett
“Young people of this century, like my son, didn't live through all those things that went on during that period of time, from 1930 to 1950. They're missing that experience. To go from a bicycle to a vehicle that takes somebody to the moon - only we saw this kind of thing.” PeopleKindYoungSawsCenturyMissingSonPeriodsMoonMy SonVehicleBicycle1930s Author:Sergio Leone